Method of manufacturing collars



Nov. 7, 1933. H. c. UNDERWOOD 1,934,154

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CGLLARS Filed 0012. 6, 1932 Av 1 15 N TO A Howard C. Underwood .4 TTORNE y Patented Nov. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COLLARS Howard 0. Underwood, New York, N. Y., as-

signor to The S and Inc., New York, York Application October 6,

3 Claims.

This invention relates to method of forming pointed corners on collars, and to the collars produced thereby.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: To provide a method wherein the corners of collars will be permanently pointed; to avoid undesired bulkiness at the corners of collars; to obtain a well-defined corner wherein the thickness will be uniform with the body of the collar; to make the fold for the point of the tip converge to a selvage edge; and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a collar blank as cut from a strip of material;

Figure 2 is a similar view of an end portion, and showing the first folding operation of the corner of the collar;

Figure 3 is a similar View and showing the second folding operation;

Figure 4 is a similar view and showing the collar completely folded;

Figure 5 is a similar view and showing the edges sewn; and

Figure 6 is an enlarged corner portion similar to that shown in Figure 4.

As seen in the drawing, the reference numeral 10 indicates the body portion of a collar, said body portion being shown as a woven material of a single thickness and comprising a neckband 11 and apron 12. Around the apron is a hem 13, and the present invention relates more particularly to the formation of this hem at the tip of the col lar to form a pointed and flat corner 14.

Referring to Figure 1, it will be understood that the first operation in collar making is cutting the collar blank in the rough from a piece of appropriate material having a selvaged edge. The selvaged edge is cut away to leave end sections of suitable lengths. The margin of this blank is turned in to make the hem 13, the line of folding for the hem being shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, where it will be noted the fold line for the hem dies or fades away at the edge of the selvage connected with the proposed point of the collar. f

I-leretofore, in folding the margin at the corner forming the tip of the collar, there has been an extra quantity of material resulting from the fold, and this extra material has caused an undesirable bulkiness. According to the present invention, this bulkiness is eliminated. To this end the cutting of the blank is performed in a manner to leave at each end of the apron portion 12 of the collar, a section 15 of the original selvage of the material. This section 15 crosses the point of intersection for the folds 16 forming the hem so that the actual tip or point of the collar is formed R Folding Machine 00.,

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tip or corner as at 1'7 so as to form a triangular corner, the edge which forms part of the selvage being in direct alignment with the fold line 16.

Creasing and folding the hem is effected in any suitable manner entirely around the neckband and approximately the entire distance up the sides of the apron towards the tip, as clearly shown in one tip in Figure 3. This operation brings the fold of said corner 17 in alignment with the proposed hem fold 16, at the end of the collar.

The next step, as illustrated in Figures 4 and 6, is to complete the folding of the unfolded portion of the end hems converging at the corner point or tip 17, and the hem 13. In making this final fold, it will be observed that the folds converge to the selvage portion of the corner, and the triangular corner folds into the hem, helping to define the line of folding, and also obtain a reinforcement for the acute corner as well as a spacing ofraw or cut edges away from the point. The folding of the triangular corner is made at a proper angle to cause the doubled edge to meet in abutting relationship, the edge of the. selvage section 15 of the lengthwise hem upon completion of the hem fold at the end of the collar, as clearly shown in Figure 6. By thus avoiding overlap of these meeting hems at the collar tip, there will be no undesirable bulkiness and also no frayed or raw edges at the tip.

Upon completion of the folds, as indicated, a

binding of tape or ribbon 18 is applied entirely around the hem and rows of stitches 19 are applied and the edges are securely held in place and the collar completed as shown in Figure 5.

I claim:

1. A collar having corners formed by selvage edges, one portion of each selvage edge being folded upon itself, and hems at intersecting corners of said edges, said hems having lines of folding which meet substantially at the selvage edges.

2. A collar having corners formed by selvage edges, the portion of each selvage edge being folded upon itself, and hems at intersecting corners of said edges, said hems having lines of folding which meet substantially at the selvage edges, contiguous ends of said hems abutting so as to avoid increasing the thickness of material at the corner of the collar formed by said edges.

3. A collar having corners formed by selvage edges, one corner of said selvage edges being folded upon itself to form triangular corners, hems at intersecting corners of said edges, said hems having lines of folding which meet substantially at the selvage edges, and contiguous ends of said hems and the said triangular corners abutting so as to avoid overlapping of the hems and 7 thereby prevent undesirable bulkiness at the formed corners.

HOWARD C. UNDERWOOD. 

